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Many of us who read newspapers would have seen the furore when B.Lenin, editor of ‘Dinamalar’ was arrested in Chennai a few weeks back, after film actress Bhuvaneshwari’s prostitution racket was busted. Bhuvaneshwari it seems had mentioned the names of a few very prominent film actresses who were involved with prostitution rackets. The next day […]

TV Chandran’s latest, “Bhoomi Malayalam” [now in theatres] is a relishing movie, which as per the director, tries to take Malayalam cinema and its audience at least an inch forward – and this time you have to give it to him. TV Chandran (assisted by his son, and my senior in school –Yadu), webs a […]

When a woman does ascend through the glass ceiling into the White House, it will be, in part, because of the race of 2008, when Hillary Clinton broke through the glass floor and got down with the boys. (link to Full article below) Do you remember the final scene in Wolfgang Petersen’s classic Air Force One, […]

Tanushree Dutta, Femina Miss India 2004, is in a lot of trouble. She walked out of the set of a movie alleging inappropriate behaviour by actor Nana Patekar and differences with the director. Now the trouble part – she faces a 65 million fine, blacklisting by the industry and an unconditional public apology to Nana […]

Sometimes I get tired of this whole blog business, its the same stuff everywhere and millions of them (and net is so slow). The rightists, leftists, cookists, fundamentalists (with balls and without), office jokists, individualists, boredists, trippists, vampists, hookerists, johnists, spamists, splogists, dopists, poeists, optimists, collabloggists, feminists. Whooo …. And its all the same old […]

“My short skirt is a liberation flag in the women’s army,” they read. “I declare these streets, any streets, my vagina’s country.” they read the Vagina Monologues aloud and then they were suspended So sad. What about those men who were fired for using the “V” word at work. (more…)

“A gentleman asked me to marry him and I said no,” she recalled. “I told him, ‘I’m just beginning to fly again, I’m just beginning to be me. Don’t take that away.’ ” Elissa B. Terris, 59, of Marietta, Ga., divorced in 2005 after being married for 34 years and raising a daughter, who is […]